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Beltrami County environmental staff outline targeted changes to shoreland ordinance
Summary
Brent Drew of the county’s Environmental Services described a proposed shoreland ordinance update that consolidates the use table, adjusts deck and lot-size definitions, adds standards for resorts, solar collectors and harbors, and proposes longer permit validity.
Brent Drew of Beltrami County Environmental Services presented an overview of a draft update to the county's Shoreland Management Ordinance, explaining that the ordinance (originally adopted in 1992 and last updated in 2006) is overdue for revision and the current draft focuses on clarifying language and deleting unnecessary or confusing standards.
Drew said the update reorganizes the lakes and rivers list alphabetically, consolidates multiple use tables into a single, simpler use table and explicitly calls out certain disallowed uses (for example, airports, salvage yards…
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